The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-10

tween us and TIE most raging clement q
nature. We are indebted to you for what
the National Board of Underwriters and
the convention of chiefs of the fire de-
partment have effected through your
suggestions, and through your encour-
agement. We are indebted to you for
what you have effected In the construc-
ton of buildings, and in the change in
the habits of our cities; so that by scien-
tific principles orderly companies extin-
guish the fire, instead of the old time
riots which used to extinguish the citi-
zens. And we are indebted to you for
the successful demands you have made
for the repeal of unjust laws-for the
battle you have waged against incendiar-
ism and arson-for the fatal blow you
have given to the theory that corporations
have no souls, by the cheerfulness and
promptitude with which you have met
losses, from which you might have es-
capped through the technicality of the
law. / do not know any class of men In
our midst more high toned and worthy
of confidence than these men, and yet /
have sometimes feared that while your
chief business is to calculate about losses on
earthly property, you might without sufh-
Gent thought go into that which, in regard
to yoIlS soul, in your own parlance might
be called ''hazards, +" ''extra hazards, !"
Especial hazards" An unfOrgiven sin
in the soul is more inflammable and ex
plosive than camphene or nitroglycerine.
However the rates may be-yea, though
the whole earth were paid down to you
in one solid premium-you cannot
afford TO lose your soul. Do not take
that risk lest it be said hereafter that
while in this world you had keen business
faculty, when you went out of the world
you went out everlastingly insolvent.
The scientific Hitchcocks, and SinimaIs,
and MitcheIls of the world have united
with the sacred writers to make us be-
lieve that there is coming a conhagra-
ton to sweep across the earth, COM
pared with which that of Chicago
in 1871, and that of Boston in
1872, and that of New York in 1885,
were mere nothing. Brooklyn on fire!
New York on fret Charleston on fire! San
Francisco on fire, Canton on fret st.
Petersburg on firel Paris on firel Lon
don ON fret the Andes on fret the APP
pennies on fire! the Himalaya on fire!
w lldL VIII DS peculiar dDOuI Tic deiS VII
be that the water with which we put out
great fires will itself take flame; and the
Mississippi and the Ohio, and the St.
Lawrence, and Lake Erie, and the Allan
tic and the Pacific oceans, and tumbling
| Niagara, shall with red tongues lick the
| heavens. The geological heats of the
| center of the world viii burn out toward
| the circumference, and the heats of the
| outside will burn down from the circum-
ference to the center, and this world viii
become not only according to the Bible,
| but according to science, living coal
| the living coal afterward whitening
| into ashes, the ashes scattered by
the breath of the last hurricane, and all
that will be left of this glorious planet
| will be the flakes of ashes fallen on other
worlds. Oh! ON that day will you be
| fireproof, or will you be a total lossf
Will you be rescued, or will you be con-
sumed? When this great cathedral of
the world, with its pillars of rocks, and
its pinnacles of mountains, and its cellar
of golden mine, and its upholstery of
morning cloud, and its baptismal font of
the sea, shall blaze, will you get out on
the fire escape of the Lords deliveranceI
/ OIL ON that day for which all other days
were made, may it be found that these
| life insurance men had paid up policy,
and these fire insurance men had given
them instead of the debris of a consumed
worldly estate a house not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens.